What Kate Did at Work
Author: Kate Balzer
Magazine issue: Spring 07
Page numbers: 15-17
Date: 26 February 2007
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About half of Kate Balzer’s clients are adults with acquired communication and / or swallowing difficulties living in nursing homes and so training of nurses and health care assistants is a service priority. Kate looks back over the changing national and professional context for such an approach and the way her service has responded over the years and sets out the strategic approach adopted by the team in 2005. This includes producing resources to support nursing home staff, developing training methods to suit different learning styles and working in partnership with other agencies to provide the training.
